I walked by the old Bosphorus location on Cambridge Street today. The door was wide open, and there were people hard at work in there. The place was all torn up. Not sure what is happening, but there was activity. Anyone have an update? Have I missed something?

It's hard to tell if they are taking the space that was once supposed to be Akimenko Meats. It doesn't seem that the dividing wall has been taken out, but the construction seems big enough and 110 seats suggests a bigger space than Bosphorus (or a very different use of the space).

Ocean State Job Lot in the Shaw's plaza on River St. in Waltham has a sign saying they are opening on Tuesday (today). It's fun to walk around their food area and look for interesting, inexpensive things. I've picked up jars of caperberries and other pickled foods at very reasonable prices.

That is odd especially after they did all that work to update water/sewer lines going/leaving there. The side walk was torn up for a few days when they did that work. And getting that done to please the city isn't cheap...

I live in the building across the street. Looks like there are some people in and out of there periodically. They took the marble slabs down off of the columns only about 24 hours after one of the middle ones fell and shattered on the sidewalk. The work definitely isn't going anywhere close to as quickly as it was, but I don't think it has totally stopped.

Local South Boston rumor is that Ming Tsai is looking to open a restaurant in the Fort Point channel area; possibly in the empty Hav a Bite space at the corner of A and Melcher. He was very recently spotted in the area.